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    "id": 1144247,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "(Nominated, JP) Hon. Speaker, I rise to oppose this Motion by Hon. Kamket and his Committee. I thought the Chairman was a bit egocentric and selfish in annulling the Biashara Kenya Fund because the Committee was ignored by the CS or because Members of Parliament will not be directly involved in disbursement of the fund. We should be looking at the benefit of collapsing four funds into one for efficiency and to have a lean board that will save us from the wage bill that we are currently struggling with as a country. We have more than 300 State corporations and semi-autonomous Government agencies in this country. Each State corporation and Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) has a board of directors with nine to 11 members and sometimes even more. It has a chief executive officer and the secretariat. If you calculate the amounts spent in remuneration to the boards, the chief executive officers and staff of each State corporation, you will find that there is massive wastage of funds. Sometimes the SAGA is doing the same job as the State Corporation. You will find the Women Enterprise Fund, the Uwezo Fund and the Youth Enterprise Fund are all targeting the same population and spending money doing civic education at separate locations. I was the Chairman of a State corporation called the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD). There is also the National Development Fund for Persons with Disabilities (NDFPWD), which does the same job as the NCPWD, but with two boards. The NCPWD even has two other boards - the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you end up spending more than 50 per cent of the money in these SAGAs for remuneration and administrative costs against the World Bank requirement that you can only use not more than 15 per cent for administration. In my view, if you collapse most of these SAGAs into one, then the administrative cost will be less and the efficiency will be more---"
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